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What D’ya Mean, 250 Grand?

Don't let it throw you, Bachem

We know $250,000 is a lot of dough. The members
and friends of the Labor-Progressive Party are really going
to have to roll up their sleeves to get that kind of money
before the comirig Federal Elections. That is what the
250 Grand is for: to underwrite the cost of running 65 or

70 candidates for the LPP in the Federal Election.

Every penny of it.

But it's not quite as tough a job as it looks. You can

‘break it down to less than $15 per member, if you like. kk

doesn’t look so big that way. Provided all of us are on the
job! ;

_ And remember: every nickel, every dollar you collect
by canvassing, in the shop, from your friends, at public
meetings or any other way you collect it, means another

vote for an LPP candidate, another vote that will send Tim

Buck and hés colleagues to Parliament Hill.
Money and votes are two things we’ll need a lot of,

‘come election day. We've got the candidates and we’ve got

the right program — and brother, if ever there was a RIGHT
program placed before the Canadian people, this is it! This
is the way Tim Buck puts it: :

“The majority of the electors favor policies of jobs ,social
Securtiy and a presperous domestic market at home with inter
national co-operation in mutual aid and lasting peace abroad.

Federal Election Campaign Fund Drive for ~

“The Labor-Progressive Party proposes that the government
placed in office by the coming Federal election shall be a coalition
government representing and depending upon the support of
that progressive, reform-minded majority of the people.’*

It makes sense. If ever we hope to bring order and
reconstruction out of this battered old world, we'll all have

to pitch in and co-operate to do the rebuilding — that is all

of us who are not “drew-drips.”** .

“What do we mean by “the progressive, reform-minded
Majority?’ We mean those Canadians who are organized in
the trade union movement, progressive farm organizations, the
Labor-Progressive Party, the CCF and the masses of democratic,
reform-minded liberals who support Mackenzie King: Together.
these forces represent the overwhelming majority of the people.”

To get these ideas across to the Canadian people, the
LPP is putting 65 or 70 candidates in the field — men and
women like Tim Buck, Fred Rose, Dorise Nielsen. That
makes us a national party with a national program in the
national interest. The job is to elect them.

That's why we need 250 Grand. It costs money to fight
reaction and we don’t have the kind of folding money the
Tory boys can throw around. .

But if we dig a bit, we can get enough. $250,000
will do the trick. Will you callout the gang and start
pitching? . .. NOW?

* DEPRESSION OR PROSPERITY by Tim Buck:

°* DREW-DRIP: (See also pro-fascist; anti-Semite; Tory; profiteer; =
Meighen; “ron-heel”’ Bennett; wage-cuts; wnemployment: Be Brom the French

$250,000

To Elect Tim Buck and Other Candidates of the

LABOR-PROGRESSIVE PARTY

“itis Advertisement is inserted by the National Office of the Labor-Progressive Party, 7S Adelaide Street West, Toronto, Ontarig,

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